Poised between clarity and complexity, precision and ambiguity, Phoebe Wang’s poems capture the dilemma of unsettled citizenship. Her second collection is Waking Occupations.
A poem by Emma Rhodes. The poem is about the extremely harmful media attention the case got, and public attitudes towards people who come forward with accusations of abuse.
The speaker in the poems that form Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig travels through Newfoundland and Ireland looking for meaning in words, places, and behaviour.
In P.S., Kemp and Thesen spend a year writing to each other, once a month, and the result is 24 poems in conversation with each other that explore how poetic conversation works across months, across an ocean, across subjectivities, and across disparate ways of knowing.
In Nevertheless, a collection about love, grief, friendship, aging, neighbours and neighbourhoods, Jerome roams into ordinary places inside and outside of the city of Vancouver to find beings and states of being to sing about.
Written from a feminist perspective and as a woman of colour, GRIT IN HER VEINS, GRACE IN HER SOUL is a captivating collection of empowering and heartwarming poetry.
With equal parts love of the art form and social critique, Marguerite Pigeon ranges over time and space in a series of long poems that delve into the history and impact of fashion.
Jane Tims is a writer, botanist and artist living in rural NB and author of five books of poetry. 'a glimpse of water fall' won Honorable Mention in the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick’s competition for the Alfred G. Bailey Prize.
In Hunger Moon, Deborah Banks explores these themes on the quiet landscape of her rural life. Here her interactions in the wide hush of a slowed world bring her a sense of community with those around her and with the great healing quality of the land that sustains us.